The direct warnings to Bush, he writes, date back to the spring of 2001. On May 1, the CIA told the White House that there was “a group presently in the United States” that was planning an attack. On June 22, a daily briefing described the attack as "imminent." Administration officials, however, dismissed the warnings, saying that Osama bin Laden was merely feigning an attack to distract the U.S. from efforts against Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

“Intelligence officials, these sources said, protested that the idea of Bin Laden, an Islamic fundamentalist, conspiring with Mr. Hussein, an Iraqi secularist, was ridiculous, but the neoconservatives’ suspicions were nevertheless carrying the day,” Eichenwald wrote. “In response, the CIA prepared an analysis that all but pleaded with the White House to accept that the danger from Bin Laden was real.”

Briefings on June 29, July 1, and July 24 carried similar warnings. On July 9, Eichenwald writes, one official suggested staff members of the CIA Counterterrorism Center “put in for a transfer so that somebody else would be responsible when the attack took place.”

Well all of this came out almost immediately with the help of the Faranheit 9-11 film and the internet getting used to communicate outside of the MSM, so why are they releasing this as "news"?

Well Silvershine, you obviously know me better than I know you, at least with your current user name.

However, even though you have me at that advantage, I believe I am still more familiar with teachers than you: we make mistakes all the time. Teaching as a profession does not grant us any immunity to error.

Why don't you correct me without all of the faux pedestal putting?

I don't know you mikey,

I don't know you mikey, I was waiting a response so that your post count number would look better

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silvershine wrote:
You know my job and that was mostly discussed on DIF. I don't know your job
silvershine wrote: that will only work 9 posts from this one

On May 1, the CIA told the White House that there was “a group presently in the United States” that was planning an attack.